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National Film Theatre work to begin
16 Jan 2006
Work will begin this month on a £4.5m project in the UK to turn London’s Museum of the Moving Image into a new home for the British Film Institute (BFI)-run National Film Theatre.
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New Woollongong bridge is boost to tourism
16 Jan 2006
Tourism officials in Wollongong, New South Wales (NSW), Australia have welcomed the opening of the new AUS$49m (US$37m, £21m, 30.5m euro) Sea Cliff Bridge, claiming it will ‘breathe fresh life’ into a coastal strip that has huge potential as a tourism and lifestyle centre.
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US$25m donation to New York Met
12 Jan 2006
The Metropolitan Opera house in New York, US, has received an unexpected donation from a benefactor of US$25m (£14.2m, 20.7m euro).
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Outback Bay opens at Jamberoo
11 Jan 2006
Jamberoo theme park in New South Wales, Australia, has opened a AUS$4m (£1.7m, US$3m, 2.5m euro) new wave pool called Outback Bay.
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HKTB supports new tourism initiative
11 Jan 2006
Over the festive season, the Hong Kong Tourist Board (HKTB) and the Hong Kong SAR government initiated a new scheme to boost the effects of tourism in two specific districts on the island – Causeway Bay and Wanchai.
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Eurostar cracks The Da Vinci Code
16 Jan 2006
Eurostar has agreed a multi-million pound global promotional partnership with Columbia Pictures, VisitBritain, VisitLondon, VisitScotland and Maison de la France to capitalise on the May release of the film version of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
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Work to begin on £2.7m sports centre
09 Jan 2006
Construction is scheduled to begin this month on the new, £2.7m skate park and extreme sports centre in Aberdeen’s beach area in Scotland.
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Planetarium reaches for the stars
04 Jan 2006
The UK’s first, purpose-built, digital Planetarium at Birmingham’s Thinktank science museum has welcomed more than 3,000 visitors since it opened just before Christmas.
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RAF Museum launches festival
04 Jan 2006
The RAF Museum in London, UK and the Heartstones Group will host a fortnight of multicultural live celebrations during February called the Festival of Flight.
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Queen Mother’s art collection to go on show
04 Jan 2006
A personal collection of watercolours and drawings that belonged to the Queen Mother have been chosen for this summer’s special exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, London, UK.
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